Name: SS&C Blue Prism Partner Awards Ceremony 2025
Uploaded: 2025-09-26T08:53:09.147Z
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Description: SS&C Blue Prism Partner Awards Ceremony 2025

Transcript for "SS&C Blue Prism Partner Awards Ceremony 2025": Hello, everyone. Welcome to the twenty twenty five SS and C Blue Prism Partner Excellence Awards. I'm Gareth Lane, VP of Global Partner Programs and Success, and lead judge for these prestigious awards. It's a pleasure to have you with us again as we celebrate the incredible power of partnership and unveil the winners. The wait is over. The votes are in. So get comfortable and enjoy the show. It's a privilege once again to serve as lead judge this year, and I'm delighted to be here with you again today. Now in its seventh year, the annual SS and C Blueprint and Partner Excellence Awards have become the ultimate celebration of the power of partnership. These prestigious awards recognize the remarkable achievements of our trusted and talented partners who, alongside us, are revolutionizing industries through intelligent automation and advancing towards agentic capabilities. Our joint expertise continues to drive digital transformation, helping businesses operate more efficiently, compete more effectively, and innovate in new and exciting ways. Now this year's award season has been very inspiring with an impressive array of entries spanning all regions and partner types. We've witnessed the vast talent within our partner ecosystem. Our regional and global judges have again been impressed by the exceptional quality of your submissions. They face an immense challenge in selecting the best of the best. Today, I'm pleased to be joined by several colleagues who will help announce our finalists and our winners. Unfortunately, we're not joined by Linda Dodds today, our chief strategy officer, who is unwell and has completely lost her voice. Please join me in wishing Linda a speedy recovery. Now Now before we dive in, I'd like to introduce John Day, senior VP partners for the Americas region, and Michael Guidry, global head of partnerships, who will share a few words about our partner program, Partner Engage, and our impressive partner ecosystem. Over to you, John. Thank you, Gareth. Our partners have achieved some incredible milestones this year, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the inspiring success stories they've shared during the awards process. Their contributions are truly remarkable, and today, we're excited to celebrate their dedication, innovation, and impact that makes our ecosystem thrive along with the tangible value they create for our customers. At SS and C Blue Prism, we believe in more than just providing a product. We believe in fostering a strong partner ecosystem with genuine partnerships that deliver real solutions for our customers, helping them overcome their greatest challenges and deliver on their core business goals. We're proud to use our own technology, we call it customer zero, for all new capabilities we bring to market, ensuring our portfolio offers the capabilities, scalability, security, and innovation that directly benefits our joint customers. And it's through our well established partner engaged program that we ensure we have a carefully curated network that customers gain access to a robust, well qualified, experienced, and highly skilled community of partners. Together with us, our extensive and dynamic partner ecosystem enhances the delivery of transformational SS and C Blue Prism orchestration and automation solutions, seamless integration of GenAI and other complementary technologies, scalable cloud deployments, and comprehensive training for customers in every situation. We take immense pride in our partner engaged model and our thriving ecosystem. Highly regarded by both our customers and the industry for its excellence, this distinction has once again been acknowledged by CRN, the channel company, which has honored our SS and C Blue Prism partner program for the fourth consecutive year, an achievement that underscores the strength of our ecosystem and the dedication of our partner teams. As we continue to invest in our program and partnerships, we look forward to collaborating with our partners to drive innovation and deliver exceptional business value. Now I'll hand it over to Michael Gidrick, our Global Head of Partnerships, to share on this exciting journey. Michael? I'm thrilled to be here celebrating the power of partnerships. With so many exciting initiatives across our regions, I look forward to continue to support the partners I've already met and the opportunity to meet many more of you. Our partner ecosystem is built on years of strong relationships, investment, and advocacy. This network plays a critical role in driving trust with customers and accelerating growth in a highly competitive environment. And it's also impressive in scale. Among our ecosystem, we can boast around 100 certified go to market partners who bring over 14,000 qualified individuals to the market. Our technology alliance program offers over 120 partnerships to help extend and elevate the value of our solutions. And our range of cloud partners ensures that customers can leverage the flexibility and scalability of hybrid and cloud based platforms for their automation journeys. This thriving network benefits customers by delivering comprehensive solutions and enabling choice and personalization and ensuring deep expertise. Growth is our most important goal at SS and C Blue Prism, and we know our partner ecosystem is the key to unlocking it. Our future roadmap represents huge opportunities, and we're committed to investing in our partnerships to help customers take advantage of our new capabilities in orchestration, automation, AI, agentic AI, and governance. We value the partner community for your positive impact on our shared customers and appreciate your continued commitment to SSENSE Blue Prism. And so the annual Partner Excellence Awards is our chance to celebrate and thank you for your innovation and the vital role you play in shaping joint customer success. I'm sure you're eager to hear who the winners are. But before we get to that, let's take a moment to recognize and congratulate our regional finalists once more. Joining me are our GMs and SVPs representing The Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Please give a warm welcome to John Day for The Americas, Sunny Saha for APAC and Jerry Hubbard for EMEA. Wishing everyone the very best of luck in the awards and now over to you, John. Thank you, Michael. It's a pleasure to be back with you once again celebrating our valued partners. This year's partners awards have been incredibly insightful with outstanding submissions across all regions. It's been a privilege to be part of the process delving into the inspiring insights and success stories that highlight the incredible work of our partners all around the world. We're proud to announce the regional finalist. And as you would expect, I'm especially excited about the Americas region. Congratulations to the finalists in The Americas. Ashling Partners, Cognition, Control three sixty five, ENTA Consulting, Ignite IPA, Infosys, NTT DATA, RMR Technology Solutions, Simply Smart, and Zoomit Tech. Thanks, John. I'm also thrilled to be back again with you this year, recognizing and rewarding our trusted partners. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has taken the time to submit their entries. The judging panel has been highly impressed with the remarkable success stories that have come to light throughout the process. That said, I must admit, I'm especially excited about the incredible achievements of our partners in the Asia Pacific region. Congratulations to the finalists from APAC, Infosys BPM Limited, Simplify Next, Tata Consultancy Services, Virtual Blue, Wonderbots, Zaijin. Thanks, John and Sonny. I'm delighted to join the celebrations today. I couldn't agree more. The participation from our partners this year has been outstanding. This year, the quality of submissions has truly impressed our regional judges, including myself. I'm especially proud of the incredible partners in the EMEA region, and we couldn't have planned it better. It looks like we kept the best for last. Congratulations to the following finalists in the EMEA region, Bartek Automation, Cogent, DXC Technology, E18 Consulting Limited, Fornex Technologies, IBM, KPMG, Outsource Automation Solutions Limited, Neos. Joining us now is Dean Crocker, Director of Partner Success, as we announce the regional winners. A huge thank you to John, Sonny, and Jerry, as well as all of our esteemed judges for their time and dedication this year. Your efforts have been invaluable. Congratulations once again to our finalists. Your journey has been incredible. Now as we shift up a gear, it's time to shine the spotlight on our winners. As in previous years, we have both regional and global awards recognizing partners who have demonstrated exceptional talent, expertise, and innovation. More than that, these awards celebrate the immense value our winners have brought to SS and C gloopersm ecosystem over the past twelve months. To present our regional awards, I'd like to introduce the regional partner success team, Alexa Kefuri for The Americas, Parunita Kefikau for APAC, and Rich Bennett for EMEA. It's over to you, Alexa. Well, Dean, we are lucky to work with so many amazing partners. Each one brings something outstanding to the table. Today, only the best of the best can take home the prize. So let's see who our stars are. Our first set of regional awards is for the SS and C Blue Prism Portfolio Award category. This award recognizes partners who have spearheaded the customer's digital transformation journey by leveraging their investment in the SS and C Blue Prism portfolio for intelligent automation. These partners successfully helped customers to reduce costs, lower risks, and enhance operational efficiencies. Are you ready? I am delighted to reveal the regional winners of the SS and C Blue Prism Portfolio Award are Cognition in The Americas region, Virtua Blue in the APAC region, and Batech Automation in the EMEA region. Congratulations to Cognition, VirtualBlue, and Batech Automation. Our next category is the Innovation Award. This award honors partners who demonstrated the clearest and most valuable innovative solution. These partners empowered SSMC Blue Prism customers to integrate cutting edge technologies and technique, such as artificial intelligence, to deliver leading edge solutions for a new way of working. By combining these techniques with our products, they achieve both substantial returns on investment and transformative results for our customers. The regional winners of this highly anticipated innovation award are Ashling in the Americas region, Xygen Company Limited in the APAC region, and Outsource Automation Solutions Limited in the EMEA region. Huge congratulations to Aisling, Zijen, and OAS. Peranita, over to you to cover our next set of awards. Thanks, Alexa. We're now jumping straight into our industry sector awards that recognize excellence in the financial services and healthcare sectors. So let's start with the client business impact SSI award category. This award celebrates partners who have demonstrated the greatest positive impact on the financial service industry, clients' operations. The winning partners have showcased outstanding engagement with them using the SSNC Blue Prism portfolio to deliver truly transformative results. It's my pleasure to announce that the retail winners for the client business impact award for FSIR are RMR technology solutions in the Americas region, OneDebotz in the APAC region. KPMG Hungary in the NEA region. Congratulations, RMR, OneDebotz, and KPMG. Next up is the client business impact health care award category. This award honors partners who have demonstrated the greatest positive impact on a private or public health care client's operations. The winning partners have showcased outstanding engagement with their clients using the SSMC Blue Prism portfolio to deliver truly transformative results. It's my pleasure to announce that the regional winners for the Client Business Impact Award for healthcare are Simply Smart in the Americas region, Simplified Next in the APAC region, EA team consulting limited in the MEA Region. Congratulations, Simplify Next, and EA team. Now which will cover the final set of retail awards for you? Thanks, Parunita. Well, we've got some great winners for this final set of regional awards, so let's get started with the client business impact industries award. This award recognizes partners who have demonstrated the greatest positive impact on a client's operations within the following industries, telecoms, pharma, manufacturing, energy and utilities, transportation and logistics, public sector, and retail and hospitality. The successful partners have shown outstanding engagement with their clients, using the SSSE Blue Prism portfolio to deliver truly transformative results. I'm pleased to announce that the regional winners for the Client Business Impact Industries Award are Infosys Limited in The Americas, Xigen Company Limited in the APAC region, and IBM in the EMEA region. Congratulations to Infosys, Xigen, and IBM. And now for the final regional award category, we come to the breakthrough partnership award. This exciting category recognizes go to market partners, whether new to the SS and C Blue Prism partner ecosystem or existing partners, who have made significant strides and exceptional investment in their partnership. The winning partners have also showcased how their engagement has delivered substantial return on investment and tangible benefits to customers. I'm thrilled to reveal that the regional winners for the Breakthrough Partnership Award are Enter Consulting in the Americas region and Outsource Automation Solutions Limited in the EMEA region. Congratulations, Enter Consulting and OAS. Now back to Gareth as we announce the global winners. Thank you so much to Rich, Parunita, and Alexa. And, again, congratulations to all of our regional winners. Now we turn our attention to the winners of our global awards. If selecting our regional winners was challenging, choosing the global winners was even more so. With so many inspiring stories and incredible insights from our partners worldwide, the decision was anything but easy. Dean Cocker, director, global partner success, will now announce our global winners. Thanks, Gareth. I'd like to start by thanking the panel for giving me the opportunity to present these awards. The global award winners we're celebrating have led significant digital transformations for our customers, delivering solutions at the highest scale with exceptional impact and remarkable return on investment. These awards honor the partners who are truly propelling our customers forward as they evolve towards agentic capabilities, demonstrating true expertise in transforming organizations. The first global award category is the SSSC Blue Prism portfolio award. As you know, this award is all about driving the customer's digital transformation agenda. This partners help the customer leverage their intelligent automation investment to reduce costs, lower risks, and increased operating efficiencies. And they've demonstrated the value added, such as hours returned to the business and financial savings and gains. It's my pleasure to announce that the global winner of the SSEC lucrative portfolio award 2025 is BotTech Automation. Our mutual customer is one of the largest and most innovative financial institutions in Saudi Arabia. Bartech Automation continues to transform their organization, powered by the SS and C blueprint portfolio, significantly increasing adoption year on year. Recently, Bartek Automation has helped transform their fraud operations, customer service, compliance, and card management units, delivering 80 processes spanning numerous legacy systems and reducing handling times by over 70. Not only did this implementation deliver a remarkable return on investment, but it also laid the foundation for long term agility and customer centric innovation within that bank's department, making it the most strategic and impactful deployment of their intelligent automation program today. Congratulations to Bottec Automation for a fantastic submission and for winning the portfolio award for 2025. Our next set of global awards will focus on the impact of SSEC blueprint solution that our partners report to customers in the financial services, health care, and industry segments. Let's start with our client business impact FSI award. This celebrates the partner who has demonstrated the greatest positive impact on an FSI customer's operations. This partner has engaged with them using the SSSC group as a platform to provide truly transformative results. And I'm delighted to announce that the global winner of the client business impact FSI award for 2025 is KPMG. KPMG has worked closely with three Hungarian banks to support their merger into a single unified banking establishment. SS and C Blue Prism has helped support the merger by automating back end processes, ensuring a seamless transition of data from three different banks and providing self-service user experience. In line with the enterprise operating model best practices, the partners ensured that the customers develop their skills to be self sufficient, empowering their intelligent automation capability, which utilizes the latest features of the SS and C Blue Prism portfolio, including decipher, interact, and the most recent API features. This is an excellent example of how visionary leadership, collaborative partnerships, and technological innovation can redefine the possibilities of banking operations. Congratulations KPMG for an impressive submission and for winning the client business impact FSI award for 2025. Moving on to our client business impact health care award. This global award recognized the partner who has demonstrated the greatest positive impact on a private or public health care's customer's operation using the SS and C blue prism platform to provide transformative results. I'm thrilled to announce that the global winner of the client business impact health care award for 2025 is Simply Smart LLC. Simply Smart LLC has enabled our mutual healthcare customer to transition to a new electronic medical record platform. An enterprise wide transformation that required a huge support from the SSSC bloopers and portfolio to ensure that the transition was a success. The use of SSSC bloopers and ensured that the healthcare customer could keep mission critical business operations moving seamlessly during the transition period and supplements the EMR platform in the long term using the capabilities provided by the SSSE groupers and portfolio to reach operational efficiency. This is without the need for hiring new resources or upskilling additional team members. Congratulations to SimpliSmart for a wonderful submission of winning the client business impact health care award for 2025. The final industry focus award for 2025 is the Client Business Impact Industries Award. This category recognized in the partner who has demonstrated the greatest positive impact on a customer's operation within the following industries, telecoms, pharma, manufacturing, energy and utilities, transportation and logistics, public sector, retail, and hospitality. This global winner has engaged with their customer using SSSE blue prism platform to provide truly transformative results. And I'm delighted to announce that the global winner of the Client Business Impact Industries Award in 2025 is IBM. IBM partnered with SSEC Blue Prism to deliver a transformative automation initiative that focused on addressing critical operational challenges in the policing customer service. The most impactful initiative is centered around command and control where the SS and C blueprint portfolio was used to address key pain points in their service, such as improving delays in answering emergency calls, addressing non emergency call abandonment rates, and client occurrence administration. Addressing these pain points improved public satisfaction and had a direct impact on public safety. The policing customer's positive uptake in key KPIs measured for these pain points is a testament to the fantastic work by IBM and customer powered by the SFNC Blue Prism portfolio. Congratulations to IBM for a fantastic submission and for winning the client business impact industry award for 2025. Our next and final global category is the innovation award, which honors the partner who has demonstrated the clearest and most valuable innovative solution, integrating cutting edge technologies and techniques such as artificial intelligence that haven't been used before to deliver a new way of working. And I'm delighted to announce that the global winner of the innovation award for 2025 is Ashland. Ashland continues to work with their customer, a leading health care provider to transform their organization powered by an SS and C Blue Prism agentic workforce. The customer's journey towards agentic automation has been guided by Aspen, who has continually integrated the SS and C Blue Prism portfolio and technical aligned solutions to significantly improve customer experience and operational excellence. To ensure that the organization benefits from the most efficiently scheduled digital workforce, Ashley has introduced c two machine learning orchestration. The SS and C blueprint portfolio is powering the customer's automation program through document automation, which reads handwritten documentation, and is 24% more accurate than leading competitors. Our Chorus product manages complex workflows, and then we have SS and C blueprints and digital workers performing mission critical tasks. The customer has been able to unlock use cases that require natural language processing and large language modules for unstructured documents and create an agentic workforce with an integration with SSSC Blue Prism digital workers and Azure OpenAI. Congratulations to Aisling on a wonderful submission and for winning the innovation award for 2025. And now I'll hand back to Gareth for the final two award categories of the ceremony. Thank you, Dean. That was truly inspiring. So many incredible success stories and worthy winners of our global award categories. Congratulations again on your hard work, your partnership with SS and c Blue Prism, and the value you've brought to our customers. Now the excitement is building as we enter our final two award categories. To help announce the winners, I'm delighted to welcome Satish Shenoy, Vice President, Global Technology Alliances and AI Go to Market. Thank you, Garrett. It gives me great pleasure to introduce the next category, the ISV TAP Partner of the Year Award for 2025. This award recognizes the solution from a technology alliance program or a TAP Partner that significantly extends the reach of the SSNC Blue Prism solution to more customers through more partners. Additionally, this award recognizes the go to market partnering efforts undertaken with SSNC Blue Prism to launch the partnership, drive awareness of the joint solution to partners and customers, and address more opportunities together. In short, this award recognizes that we are truly better together. I'm delighted to announce that the winner of the ISV Tap Partner of the Year award for 2025 is BusinessOptics. With a history of successful collaboration spanning EMEA, APAC, and The Americas, BusinessOptics has consistently demonstrated their expertise in process discovery, governance, and automation. Their innovative approach has enabled our customers to overcome inefficiencies and achieve greater agility. A standout example of our partnership success is the recent large scale deal where we resold business optics on the SS and C Blue Prism digital exchange, expanding our reach beyond the COE into other business groups. This achievement showcases the power of our combined solution, which integrates process mapping, modeling and automation capabilities. BusinessOptics has been a driving force in our partnership, investing in joint solution development, sales enablement and aligned go to market initiatives. Their dedication has resulted in a stronger pipeline and improved partner readiness. Congratulations to BusinessOptics on this well earned recognition. We are eager to continue our collaboration, driving innovation and unlocking the full potential of AI and automation for our customers. Now we have come to our partner of the year award. I'd like to bring Gareth Lane back to announce the winner of this most prestigious award. Thank you, Satish. And the honor now falls to me to announce the winner of our final and most prestigious award, our global partner of the year for 2025. This award celebrates a visionary organization that has demonstrated outstanding technical excellence, tireless dedication to customer success, and a bold, forward thinking approach to delivering world class outcomes for some of the most complex challenges faced by their clients. True partnerships thrive on shared commitment. And to drive continued growth, both parties need to be invested in consistent, intentional effort to secure the growth of the relationship. This outstanding partner has not only demonstrated a relentless drive to accelerate growth within their business, but has also solidified their place within our partner program with continued investment towards achieving the highest level of certification. The transformational projects they've delivered have not only realized significant measurable impact, but have also raised the bar in terms of innovation. Through a powerful combination of SS and C Blue Prism's technology and their exceptional skills and expertise, they continue to push the limits of what's possible. In a year where we have seen some amazing examples of innovation and transformation, This partner stood out by seamlessly integrating complex technical environments, scaling with agility, and consistently delivering value across industries and borders. Their work exemplifies the power of partnership and the limitless potential of human ingenuity when empowered by enterprise class technology. It is my absolute pleasure to announce that the SS and C Blue Prism partner of the year is Altec Automation. Congratulations to Oday and the entire team at BOTECH Automation on winning our most prestigious award this year. Well, what an incredible ceremony. Congratulations to all our award winners. We're grateful to work with such dedicated partners who bring immense value to our shared customers worldwide. A huge thank you to our judges, partner award and partner success teams, and our internal colleagues who ensured the program's success once again. And, of course, a big thank you to you, our amazing partners. We deeply appreciate your participation this year. Thank you for watching. See you next year for the SS and C Blue Prism partner excellence awards.